There's a new AI-backed search engine in town. But can it stand up to Google's decades-long hold on internet searches?

ChatGPT's new search functionality, launched on October 31, has ignited discussions about its potential to disrupt the search engine market long dominated by Google.With real-time access to web information and the ability to provide conversational answers complete with direct citations,

ChatGPT Search is not a standalone product. It's built directly into the standard ChatGPT interface and will be triggered automatically when the AI deems that a web search is necessary, though there's also a button to manually trigger the search engine.

SearchGPT was initially launched in July as a prototype, from which OpenAI planned to integrate the best features with ChatGPT later. OpenAI has collected that feedback and implemented it into its search experience, claiming it brought "the best of the SearchGPT experience" into the chatbot.

As a Halloween treat for ChatGPT users (and a trick for the likes of Google and Bing), OpenAI has turned its AI chatbot into an internet search engine. As the company explains in a blog post, ChatGPT is now better than ever at searching the web and capable of providing fast and timely answers to your questions with links to relevant sources.

OpenAI has added search engine capabilities to ChatGPT, challenging Google's web search dominance. However, it's only available to paid users.

Navigate to ChatGPT Search's announcement page and click on Download Chrome Extension to reach the official Chrome Web Store page. Click the Add to Chrome button at the top of the store page to begin installation. When the pop-up window appears, click Add extension. You'll see a confirmation message that ChatGPT Search has been added to Chrome.

OpenAI unveiled SearchGPT inside ChatGPT last week and I’ve made the switch completely from Google in a large part because it removes all the clutter of a modern Google result page.